My customers often ask, "what does using a type 5 JDBC driver mean to my application?" - to which I have to respond "quite a lot." Here's a brief overview of Type 5 benefits which were outlined in our...

If you think performance gains in your application have to be several days and multiple code changes away, think again! What about bulk load, application failover, and other functionality that is expected in today's applications? Again, no code changes required with DataDirect JDBC Type 5 - better...

Are your end-users getting the best possible performance when using your applications? Even if the answer is "Yes", the old adage "There is always room for improvement" definitely applies here. Unlike so many projects which require "continuous improvement", improving your application performance...

Connecting to a cloud data source with a standards-based driver is an exciting new development! Our new JDBC offering to Salesforce.com is the topic of this short, but informative video. Our development team talks about exposing the full breadth of Salesforce data to Java applications, optimizing...

We’ve all been there - you’ve leveraged a heterogeneous service agent and successfully completed that application that will pull and integrate data from multiple sources quickly and flexibly. Or, so you think. As soon as you start testing, you realize the connectivity just isn’t cutting it. It’s too...

Announcing the release of the first standards-based JDBC data access to the cloud - to Salesforce.com! Today, Tuesday March 1st, we made generally available our Connect XE for JDBC Driver - with the very first data source, Salesforce.com.
After a wildly successful beta, this release positions...

As an application architect or developer who uses JAVA/SQL, a Salesforce.com admin, or even a CIO, maybe you’ve thought about using a cloud-based data source, maybe you haven’t. Either way, you’ve probably been watching the excitement around the concept build to an all-time high – particularly with...

There have been many relatively recent dramatic improvements in hardware. Factors such as processor speed/design and network capacity appear to be making shortages of hardware resources very pre-2011. Not to mention falling prices that appear to not have hit bottom just yet. But with improving...

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